Tapestries
MICHELE SORELLO (C. 1700-C. 1765)
The Conversion of Saul
c.1720-1755Etching | 27.4 x 38.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 853141
A print after a drawing by Carlo Maratti then in the collection of Cardinal Albani. Lettered with artists’ names, Bible quote (Acts, Chapter 9) and former location of Maratti’s drawing.
The drawing, most likely the one now housed in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 904297), is a copy after the Sistine Chapel tapestry of the same subject designed by Raphael under commission of Pope Leo X, now in the Vatican Museums (inv. no.43872).
The drawing, most likely the one now housed in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 904297), is a copy after the Sistine Chapel tapestry of the same subject designed by Raphael under commission of Pope Leo X, now in the Vatican Museums (inv. no.43872).
Creator(s)
Michele Sorello (c. 1700-c. 1765) (etcher)
After Carlo Maratti (1625-1713) (artist)
After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (designer)
27.4 x 38.2 cm (sheet of paper)
26.1 x 37.4 cm (platemark)
CIRCUMFULSIT EUM LUX DE COELO, ET CADENS IN TERRAM, AUDIVIT VOCEM DICENTEM SIBI: SAULE, SAULE, QUID ME PERSEQUERIS?
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Places
- Europe
- Italy
- Lazio [Italy]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican-Sistine Chapel tapestries
- Sistine Chapel [Vatican Palace]
- Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
- Vatican City [Rome]
- Rome [Lazio]
- Lazio [Italy]
- Italy
- Europe
- Places
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.132, no.VI.1 (entry by Grazia Bernini Pezzini) (Raphael Invenit 1985 : Bernini Pezzini, G. et al., 1985. Raphael Invenit. Stampe di Raffaello nelle Collezioni dell'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome)
